Call them bum wines, street wines, fortified wines, wino wines, or twist-cap wines. Whatever you call these beverages for the economical drunkard, this page explores the top five. So curl up on a heating duct and enjoy...

Flavored fortified wine or tonic wine is inexpensive fortified wine that typically has an alcohol content between 13% and 20% alcohol by volume (ABV). They are made from various fruits (including grapes and citrus fruits) with added sugar, artificial flavor, and artificial color.

Jan 10, 2014 · In which we gracefully taste street wines and tell you which ones are actually kind of delicious, and which taste like something fermented in a bathroom.

Mar 11, 2020 · You can snub your nose all you want, at a bum wine, but we have all drunk the fermented Kool-Aid at least once in our lives. These liquid staples of urban America are bound to treat you right until you treat them wrong.

Exploring the five best known bum wines. Night Train Express 17.5% alc. by vol. Don't let the 0.5% less alcohol by volume fool you, the Night Train is all business when it pulls into the station.

Jan 20, 2011 · The "bum wine" has many names: street wine, brown bag wine, wino wine, fortified wine or twist-cap wine (although a lot of decent wines have twist caps now, too).

The great street wines are pretty much evenly priced, and range between $1.10 and $2.80, depending on the tax and transportation costs in your area. Of course, with all five, the first sip is always the foulest.

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Night Train, the infamous bum-wine produced by Gallo, has mysteriously disappeared from liquor store shelves. This once-iconic beverage , known for its high alcohol content and low price, is no longer being produced by Gallo.

In my opinion, I rank the Night Train Express and Thunderbird as #1 and #1A in the bum wine world. Both were made by Gallo wines, even though they never want to admit it. These guys are sitting on a goldmine and just don't realize how to promote these fine wines to the masses.